Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...late to arrange for such an address this year, but we think that some practical final talk on this general plan ought to be arranged toward the close of each year for the graduating class...
...peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles but real languages, and we should think that the teacher could better expound his subject who exemplified this belief...
...think that the Department of the Classics has realized its former shortcomings and is endeavoring, in its courses on literature, to substitute personal, historical, and literary interest for grammar and exegesis. In this effort much depends on the instructors, some of whom make even interesting courses dull, while others are most fortunate in the presentation of their subjects; nothing, for instance, could be more delightful than Professor Rand's exposition of Horace. We hope that men who wish to take the word-puzzle view of the classics will be relegated to courses of their own, and that all the courses...
...perhaps for no reason at all, this custom has been forgotten, the Newell gate is kept locked on such occasions, and the undergraduates pass through the regular entrances. Without pretending to pass finally on the practicability of re-adjusting the ticket-taking and seating arrangements now in use, we think that the custom is too good to allow to die, and that, if revived, it will recall to future College generations the memory of a Harvard man so deserving of perpetuation...
...fall or turn it over to the University loan collection, we feel sure that many men would prefer to give their furniture to such a committee and forego the absurdly low prices which the professional dealers offer. Without attempting to work out the details of the plan, we do think that it is a practical suggestion, and one which if carried out would materially aid the poorer students in getting through the financial strain of freshman year...